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Reproductive Data for Terebra plumbea
egg diameter -
reproductive season August
development veligers hatch when 1 1/2 whorls are complete, add 3 to 3 1/2 additional whorls while planktonic, settle out when they are 925-1025 um in length and have completed 4 1/2 to 5 whorls
occurrence plankton in Kaneohe Bay Sampan Channel
references J.B. Taylor in Planktonic Prosobranch Veligers of Kaneohe Bay, 1975

Phylogenetic Information
phylum Mollusca
class Gastropoda (subclass Prosobranchia)
order Neogastropoda
family Terebridae
genus Terebra
species plumbea
reproduction method sexual